Just one more note on spaces in filenames. If you have a whole bunch of files/directories with spaces in their names, and you want to get rid of the spaces, here's a small(!) command you can run at the cygwin bash prompt:
Run this one first, which renames all directories under the current directory from (for example) "dirname with spaces" to "dirname-with-spaces": # find . -type d | grep -e "\ " | sort | while read d ; do mv -v "${d}" "`echo $d | sed -e 's/\ /-/g' --`" ; done Obviously remove the leading '#' and put it all on one line. You could of course make it into a script... Here's the one I use to remove all spaces from actual files: # find . -type f | grep -e "\ " | while read f ; do mv -v "$f" "`echo $f | sed -e 's/\ /-/g' --`" ; done Finally, as a bonus, here's a little command I use to rename all files called "something" to "something.txt" (ie, those without an extension). You'll have to run the above two commands first, though: # for f in find . -type f | grep -e [[:punct:]][[:alpha:]][[:alpha:]][[:alpha:]]$ ; do mv -v ${f} ${f}.txt ; done Cheers, Matthew van de Werken Electronics Engineer CSIRO Exploration & Mining - Gravity Group 1 Technology Court - Pullenvale - Qld - 4069 ph: (07) 3327 4685 fax: (07) 3327 4455 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2002 5:50 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] spaces in filenames (was: spaces in > footprint names) > > > G'Day Emanuel (and others): > > No experience with this specifically, but I've learnt from > bitter experience > that spaces in filenames are a Bad Idea(tm), period. I don't care what > application you're using, as soon as you put spaces in > filenames you open up > a whole can of worms when you're trying to administer your > filesystem, due > to the fact that spaces break many unix-type scripts. Whether > or not this > affects you personally doesn't really matter - the person > following you or > cleaning up your filesystem might care. > > By "unix-type" scripts, I am including cygwin, which only > just makes my life > in a windows world bearable. If I can't have a 'for' loop on > a command line > I am lost! > > Cheers, > Matthew van de Werken > Electronics Engineer > CSIRO Exploration & Mining - Gravity Group > 1 Technology Court - Pullenvale - Qld - 4069 > ph: (07) 3327 4685 fax: (07) 3327 4455 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Emanuel Zimmermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2002 5:18 PM > > To: Protel EDA Forum > > Subject: [PEDA] spaces in filenames (was: spaces in footprint names) > > > > > > It seems that not only spaces in footprints can cause trouble > > but in filenames > > also. Yesterday I generated my cam-files from a pcb-file that > > I had saved with > > "save as..." from the file menu. This by default changes the > > filename to "copy > > of xyz.pcb". The Gerbers generated from this file seem to be > > corrupted somehow. > > At least when imported into Camtastic it shows part of the > > filename as string in > > the middle of rectangular pads. When changing the > > pcb-filename to "xyz.pcb" and > > running the same cam generator on the same data these strings > > within Camtastic > > have disappeared. > > I'm not quiet sure if its Protels or Camtastics problem. Does > > anybody of you out > > there have more experience with this "feauture", especially > > does anybody know if > > this impacts PCB production? > > > > Thanx, > > Emanuel > > > > > > > > -- > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > MPL AG www.mpl.ch > > Emanuel Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Manager R&D Phone: +41 (0)56 483 34 34 > > Taefernstrasse 20 Fax: +41 (0)56 493 30 20 > > > > CH-5405 Daettwil > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *